Mayor Chris Coleman to visit St. Paul sites for service recognition day

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman gave his State of the City address at the Crown Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom on Monday, March 25, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John Doman)

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman will visit three sites staffed by AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members during the Mayor's Day of Recognition for National Service.

The mayor on Tuesday, April 9, will tour each location as part of a nationwide event involving more than 700 mayors across the country. More than 1,100 national service recruits receive a small stipend in exchange for their community work in St. Paul.

From 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m., Coleman will visit the Jackson Elementary School on Edmund Avenue in Frogtown, where AmeriCorps VISTA, Reading Corps and Promise Fellow members teach and mentor students. He'll be joined there by Laysha Ward, president of Community Relations for Target and board chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

From 2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., the mayor will meet with Senior Corps members at Lutheran Social Services, Labor Plaza, 500 Tedesco Street, where he'll speak to the elderly clients whom they help to live independently at the Tedesco housing community.

From 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., the mayor will visit YouthCARE, 2701 University Ave. SE, Suite 205 in Minneapolis, a multicultural organization that serves urban youth, most of them from St. Paul.